I fail to understand the reason why Daphne Caruana Galizia seems to be “annoyed” by the fact that Dun Gorg has become a saint. She targeted Dun Gorg heavily in her Sunday column (TMIS, 27 May), and did so again in her article, Praise the Lord and let the people drown (TMID, 31 May). This time round she went one step further as to linking the canonisation of Dun Gorg with the tragedy we are all living with regard to irregular migration.

This is yet again a typical article by Daphne Caruana Galizia which is full of generalisations, whereby all the persons of faith who are truly happy about Dun Gorg are depicted as cruel beings ready to have the irregular migrants drown at the first chance they get! However the peak of her article is in the following paragraph: “What interests me is the fact that we are defining the goodness of this saint-to-be in terms of his mysticism and his preaching and teaching of the semi-literate and the completely illiterate. That’s not my definition of doing good, but then making sure that people have food, clothes and a roof over their head has always struck me as being more important than making sure they have religion. The volunteers struggling to cope every day at the open centres for refugees are the ones performing Christ’s work, to my mind, and not the ones marshalling reluctant children into duttrina classes when they should be playing and carefree instead of being forced into thinking about hellfire and naughty sins.”

In an attempt by Daphne Caruana Galizia to play god and define what is good and what is not, she completely misses out on what the MUSEUM is really all about. I am very proud to say that I was heavily involved in the MUSEUM until I turned 16 and this provided me with a very sound and solid formation which served as a mould for the rest of my life. It is a pity that such a precious service being given completely voluntarily by the MUSEUM, is rubbished in such a manner.

Dun Gorg saw the signs of his times. He realised that it is truly a great pity to have persons not educated in their faith, and used all his energy, intelligence and faith at addressing this issue. Instead of trying to rubbish Dun Gorg, Daphne could well learn a lesson from him to pursue something that is really close to her heart. It is so easy to just sit on the fence and write articles. Maybe that is why God in all his wisdom, decides to show his greatness in “simple” persons like Saint Gorg rather than glamour-seeking opinion-shapers like Daphne.

Silvan Mifsud

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